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Susan Prichard

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Natural Fuels Photo Series

Tutorial

INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE

To effectively teach students how to use the photo series, you will need to fully

understand how to use photo series yourself by reviewing the tutorial and by using

the published photo series volumes in a field setting.

To download and/or view the Natural Fuels Photo Series tutorial, please visit:

http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/products/tutorials/

Tutorial: The Natural Fuels Photo Series tutorial is intended to be viewed

individually by students online, or downloaded to a personal computer and viewed

offline. You may wish to incorporate the tutorial as a pre-course assignment or

classroom exercise.

Student Workbook: A student workbook is available on the tutorial webpage; the

workbook contains an introduction to the Natural Fuels Photo Series followed by

each page of the tutorial with space provided for student notes.

Demonstration: A short Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation on using the Natural

Fuels Photo Series is available for downloading on the tutorial webpage.

You may

wish to tailor the presentation with examples from your region.

To order any of the 11 photo series volumes for the United States, please visit our

webpage at:

http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/photoseries.html

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INTRODUCTION TO THE NATURAL FUELS PHOTO SERIES

Ground inventory procedures that directly measure site conditions such as fuel

loading and arrangement, vegetation structure, and composition exist for most

ecosystem types and are useful when a high degree of accuracy is required.

However, ground inventories are time consuming and expensive.

Photo series can

be use to make quick, easy, and inexpensive determinations of fuel quantities and

vegetation conditions when less precise estimates are acceptable.

About the Natural Fuels Photo Series

The Natural Fuels Photo Series currently includes eleven volumes representing

various regions of the United States and one volume from Brazil.

There are one to

four series in each volume, each having four to seventeen sites.

Sites include

standard, wide-angle, and stereo-pair photographs.

Each group of photos includes

inventory data summarizing vegetation composition, structure, and loading; woody

material loading; density by size class, forest floor depth and loading; and various

other site characteristics.

Photo series are important land management tools that can be used to ecologically

assess landscapes through appraisal of fuels (i.e., living and dead woody material

and vegetation biomass) and site characteristics.

Once an ecological assessment

has been completed, fuel treatment options such as prescribed fire, thinning or

biomass removal can be planned and implemented to better achieve desired effects

while minimizing negative impacts on other resources.

The photo series is useful in several branches of natural resource science and

management.

Inventory data such as these can be used as inputs for evaluating

vegetation assemblages, animal and insect habitat, nutrient cycling, and

microclimate.

Fire managers will find these data useful for predicting fuel

consumption, smoke production, fire behavior, and fire effects during wildfires and

prescribed fires.

In addition, the photo series can be used to appraise carbon

storage, an important factor in predictions of future climate, and to link remotely-

sensed signatures to live and dead fuels on the ground.

The Natural Fuels Photo Series continues to evolve and grow as land managers,

researchers, and policy-makers identify ecosystems for which vegetation and fuel

inventory data are needed.

Future volumes are planned for the Northeast (Red

spruce and balsam fir, pitch pine, pitch pine scrub, and mixed hardwoods);

Southwest (Juniper and oak woodlands of the borderland region); Montana (Juniper

and shrublands of the Missouri Breaks region); and Mexico (pine and oak).

For more information, contact:

Roger Ottmar, Research Forester

Fire and Environmental Applications Team

USFS - PNW Research Station

Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory

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400 North 34th Street, Suite 201

Seattle, Washington

98103

Land Management Tool Training Package

Fire and Environmental Applications Team

USFS - PNW Research Station

Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory

400 North 34th Street, Suite 201

Seattle, Washington

98103

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